aising a Reader Even though technology may be slowly changing from books to e-readers and computers, children must still learn how to read to succeed. The first five years of your child's life is the most essential time for learning language skills. There are many things you should know as a parent and activities you can do with your child to ensure that they learn to enjoy reading as a wonderful experience. Perhaps the most important activity you can do with your child is to read with them consistently. Rosemary Wells, author of Read to your Bunny, put it perfectly - "Reading together twenty minutes a day is the most important gift you can give your child." When you first begin to read to your child as an infant, what you read matters less than the reading itself. If you are reading to an infant or a very young toddler, it is more the sound of your voice, the fact that you are spending time with them, and the routine of reading together that matters. As your child begins to notice the words and pictures as you point them out, there are more activities you can add that will help your child develop the six pre-reading skills. Here are a few guidelines for reading with children:
- Keep books accessible to the children, perhaps on a low bookshelf.
- Make reading books together a bedtime routine.
- Don't use the words. Use only the pictures and make up your own story!
- Act out the story together.
- Use silly voices for each different character in the story.
- Utilize your library story time. Help your child pick out more books to enjoy together while you are there.
During the first five years of life children develop early literacy skills. These prepare them to learn and succeed and generally fall into six categories, as mentioned above. Here are their definitions and an activity to go with each.
Narrative Skills - The ability to describe things and tell stories; Ask open ended questions about pictures such as: "What do you think is happening here?" to encourage children to make up their own stories.
Letter Knowledge- Understanding that each letter has its own name and sounds; Write words your child finds appealing such as "dinosaur" or "sparkle" using magnetic letters and a crayon or pencil and paper.
Phonological Awareness - The ability to recognize and play with the smaller sounds that make up words; Play with rhymes. Read simple poems and have children guess the last word in the
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